Sticky Posts!

September 8, 2008

Heather M.

Regular updates are what blogging’s all about, but sometimes you want to keep hot topics or other static info at the top of your posts. This feature has existed as Sticky Topics in the forums, but hasn’t been available on blogs. Until now.

In the publishing options for each post you’ll now see “Stick this post to the front page.”

Sticky posts checkbox.

Check that box, click Publish and — ta da! — your post is highlighted at the top of your blog, where it will stay until you decide otherwise.

Sticky posts in action.

When your fresh stuff gets stale, just edit the post and uncheck the box. Click Save and it’s back to its place in chronological order.

Pretty fantasticky.

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This is really cool, I used to do this by going to Settings and change the stuffs that makes my post static. Now that everything is easier and best of all, the posts goes back into chronological order. WordPress rocks.

This is perfect! I have been using a “welcome page” with introduction and important updates which could now become a “sticky”. I had noticed that when I was previewing new templates to consider a change in look, that my Welcome Page was being deleted, so I have felt hostage to my current template – now I can make the sticky and move forward with updates. Very cool and appreciated!

An example of how I am going to use Sticky Posts right away (in the hope of inspiring others to take advantage of this great feature): I review books that often win awards and come back into the news months after I review them. Because people want to read about the books again then, I have been reposting earlier reviews when this happens.

Now I can just stick the posts. I am probably going do this within the next 24 hours when the shortlist for a major international book award, the Man Booker Prize, is announced tomorrow. Merci … gracias … vielen dank’!

I am sorry, I haven’t read through the previous comments so don’t know if anyone has talked about this issue. But is is possible to tie Sticky posts with stats. For instance, we decide to keep n posts sticky or keep posts with more than x views sticky and the process of making posts sticky or unsticky is left to stats. This can be an added feature to the manual method, of course.

Manna from Heaven!
I’m almost regretting my epic outburst on a similar forum for an earlier update that’s best not discussed. But with the sticky post feature, I stand corrected.
Dhanyavaad Word Press!! =:]

Perfect timing! I was wanting to prioritize postings! Wonder if there’ll be a top 1, 2, 3, option…maybe let us keep more than a few at the top of each pages? Maybe just the default could be chronological. Be great to have the option to structure it further. I’ll post it to the forums or feedback form.